On 2008-10-30 13:24:10 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > I don't think this is a bug. As documented in perlvar.pod, > the value $! is meaningful only immediately after a failure.
The problem with the readline function is that one cannot know if there's a failure without looking at $! first! Note that the example tests whether the returned value is defined, but undef in case of end of file isn't a failure. But what if the result is not undef (in either scalar or list context) while there's a failure? So, either the behavior or the documentation has to be changed. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
